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Old 07-23-2016 | 10:47 AM
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Originally Posted by go_hercules
The Chipmunk is a 40 size. The only thing I have yet to test is how the E6000 holds up to nitro fuel residue. If need be I can super glue the edges of the plastic just to seal them up. That's probably overkill but once the fuel gets in there it's a mess to repair. By the way, I have a couple of U.S. Aircore coroplast planes and had never thought to try E6000 on them.
I had the EZ Super Chipmunk when I really hadn't developed the skill to fly that kind of airplane... paired it with the then newly released, O.S. four cycle FS-.61 which I don't think was a good match even though M.A.N. featured a promo review article by Chris Chianelli (IIRC) with the same combo. If you pulled too hard on elevator at the top of a loop, it would snap out. I pulled too much up elevator during a low and slow, final approach to the runway when the engine quit, tried to stretch the glide, and airplane tip-stalled very quickly into low lying brush destroying the wing.

A few years later, I bought another - this time powered it with a 2-stroke .61 FSR and the airplane now had the vertical performance that was lacking with the first. I was so anal about shifting weight during gear retraction (fore/aft operation rather than conventional) that I substituted the stock wheels with Ace lightweight plastic wheels (the tires were hollow plastic) to reduce any CG shift and servo strain between gear down, gear up. I remember some of the airplanes featured a servo tray that allowed the user to select distribution of equipment according to engine choice. Flew it a few years but on last flight - flamed out abreast, was too far out with the crosswind at my back, and stuck it in the top of a line of trees I was trying to clear.